International Day of Peace 2024

 

There is no doubt at all that in so many places and so many corners of the globe we need peace. On 21 September once again we pause for peace - on International Day of Peace we can send vibes out that maybe we can give peace a chance.

This afternoon in preparation for tomorrow Fiona and I installed our peace doves and peace weather grams on the fence and in the plum tree beside our cottage in Scotland. Before we left our Maleny home we installed doves and weathergrams - giving peace a chance at our two homes.

In the opening photo and following are a few images of the peace weather grams and peace doves. At the cottage some of the doves and weather grams are installed on barbed wire - we think the barbed wire symbolises war and unjust and illegal imprisionment.

Tomorrow morning Fiona and I will pause by the fence and tree and consciously send vibes of peace to wherever they are needed - may peace have a chance.

Putting peace in place

This year we will be in Scotland on International Day of Peace (IDP) (21 September). We will hang our weather grams and peace doves at our cottage for IDP. But we also have our weather grams and peace doves hanging in the tree out the front of our Maleny home. Saturday afternoon was a great sunny afternoon to put peace in place on the tree - image of me above and Fiona below.

I liked the fact that some weather grams from previous years are still hanging in there - see below.

And a few more of peace in the tree.

Finishing with a couple of peace images - on Ken's sculpture at the front door and couple of sculptures under the tree.

One cannot have too many shoutouts for peace. This year I chose to print the words "create peace here" meaning peace starts at the local level - between individuals and communities  - and ripples out across the globe.

Preparing for IDP

 

Fiona and I are fully into preparing weather grams for International Day of Peace (21 September 2024). This year we are both printing weather grams on recycled brown paper cutlery holders from local food outlets - collected by family and friends.

In all we had enough cutlery holders to print 240 weather grams. On Friday night we had a gathering with a few friends and over some wine and cheese we punched holes in and threaded cord through all the weather grams - see opening photo for some of the completed weather grams. The photos below shows the start of assembling of the weather grams. A lot of fun was had in assembling the weather grams, sharing food and wine and friendship.

Following are a few process photos. You can see that this year I have printed the words create peace here - meaning start by creating or offering peace locally. Fiona has used peace is every step - a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. The weather grams were printed on one of our presses at Deckled Edge Press using 48 point lower case Placard Bold metal type.

These weather grams will make their way out into the world so that they can be tied in trees and on fences etc to flutter and fly on International Day of Peace and hopefully send a few ripples of peace into the world.